This. And it's particularly gross because those people are his constituents. If it was just some left-wing activist on Twitter it wouldn't be as offensive.

business is like 1/10th of the situation. you have death threads to worry about, a constant stream of social media harassment, and even the threat of protests outside of your house. it's not very hard to find where someone lives with just a name.

There is a homemaker on the list and a bunch of retired people

Those are just random individuals at home that are now on a list used to invite and incite harrassment for their personal donations

That's some bullshit that trump and Republicans would get slammed on for doing and Democrats that do it should face the same criticism


// the media would be releasing an interview with every rand on that list willing to tell a sob story about it if trump and a trump friendly Republican did it to Democrats

The homemaker and her story

The retired people and their stories

The self employed people wrecked by it

Politicians on both sides have an obligation to not participate in these types of tactics against citizens and on top of that constituents dafuq

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So just as an example How could somebody call for a public boycott of people funding political opponents without it being a harassment tactic? Boycotts and social pressure are undeniably a valid mechanism of social pressure to me so how can it be done without it specifically being a harassment tactic?

i think boycotts should exist for corporations, or for smaller businesses when the owner is personally culpable of gross misconduct. i dont consider a max contribution to a political campaign to be gross misconduct, as it's legal.

but what's the purpose of a mechanism against donors? to pressure them into not donating in 2020? that's not exactly comparable to boycotting a business to get the business to change a policy. its boycotting a business to get the owner/employee to not contribute to their chosen candidate.

so i'd say comparison to corporate boycotts fails on 2 important fronts.

Touching words.

It's like star trek: "Where No Man Has Gone Before"

the fact denier strikes again:

https://www.politico.com/story/2019/08/07/poll-most-voters-support-assault-weapons-ban-1452586

His district is so blue that a Republican didn't even RUN against him. Why would you call out your OWN constituents like that? Yes, the information is public but 99% of people are too fucking lazy to look it up. People in positions of power really shouldn't do this.

https://www.nytimes.com/2019/08/08/us/politics/trump-blagojevich.html



This is what the forgotten men and women of Michigan and Pennsylvania were yearning for in 2016... someone to help out corrupt Democrat politicians. The Trump crowds will have to change the "drain the swamp" chants to "everybody is corrupt, so pardon the ones who have family members who appear on Fox News".